Posted on 08/25/2021 5:59:31 AM PDT by Red Badger
Watchdog group Open the Books says abandoned U.S. weaponry, vehicles, planes will fall in the hands of the Taliban.
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The U.S. military is leaving behind 75,000 vehicles, 600,000 weapons and 208 airplanes/helicopters in Afghanistan as the Taliban takes control of the country, according to the watchdog group Open the Books.
“We've made the Taliban into a major U.S. arms dealer for the next decade,” said Adam Andrzejewski, CEO & founder of Open the Books. “They now control 75,000 military vehicles. This is about 50,000 tactical vehicles, 20,000 Humvees they control about 1,000 mine-resistant vehicles, and even about 150 armored personnel carriers.”
In total, the U.S. government spent an estimated $83 billion of taxpayer funds on weapons, vehicles and airplanes for the Afghan military.
The Biden administration said recently that a "fair amount" of weaponry would land in the hands of the Taliban but it didn’t have an exact number.
Andrzejewski said his organization "found a Federal Audit that detailed up to $200 million worth of drones that had disappeared," adding that "we don't know where 600,000 weapons are within the country.”
The Taliban also reportedly has access to biometrics data of Afghans that helped U.S. forces during the war.
75,000 1992 Toyota pickups for sale in Afghanistan now?
I read yesterday where Taliban are just giving all this crap straight to Iran.
They needed it.
They broke all the stuff Obama and Hillary gave them at Benghazi.
There’s a big market for those in Hawai’i...
They are leaving all that behind plus Americans?
And I’m sure gun control will be next on DC’s agenda. I want the same 2nd Amendment rights afforded the Taliban.
People belong in Leavenworth for this.
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And pallets of cash.
Couldn’t find room on the planes for those.
Like a Democrat would ever willingly leave cash behind.
The Lincoln Conspirators...... There was a time....................
There’s a difference between “abandoned” and “captured from the Afghan National Army.”
Looks like the good old days.
Traitors do not deserve an honorable death.
Technically, we abandoned the Afghan Army.
But the Dementiajoe kakistocracy won't tell us how many Americans are in Afghanistan... or will be left behind to their fate.
…paid for by OUR tax dollars!
…well… our great, great grandchildren’s tax dollars…
Leave their carcasses to rot off the noose.
Did we leave a training simulator for the high-tech aircraft..
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